Edmund Burke: “Their rising was to illuminate and beautify the world.”

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

The House of Lords, for instance, is not morally competent to dissolve the House of Commons,--no, nor even to dissolve itself, nor to abdicate, if it would, its portion in the legislature of the kingdom.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.